We have been using confluence for a few years. It is not free but it works very 
well. I have searched and searched for a personal wiki and have not found 
anything that comes close.

-- cwebber

On Apr 27, 2010, at 12:57 PM, David Parter wrote:

> 
> I know, there are a million to choose from.
> 
> Here's the situation:
> 
>  Our faculty (and students) want wikis. And they would like us to
>  support their wikis. They haven't exactly said what that means, but we
>  can at least define a plausible service offering, and see if that
>  works.
> 
>  Currently we have a ton of different wikis, all in a state of
>  disrepair/not being maintained or secure, installed by individual
>  faculty and students. We want to do better. We *need* to do better.
> 
> Some things we already know:
> 
> 1) We think we want a wiki that stores content in a database, because it
>   decouples the content from the wiki code, makes migration and
>   upgrades easier, and doesn't rely on the unix file system and which
>   uid the web server runs as for security. But that maybe a misguided
>   idea...
> 
> 2) There needs to be some kind of authentication and authorization. This
>   is where it gets hard -- we don't have to solve every problem with
>   the same tool, but some of our users just need a handful of wiki
>   users, so built-in authentication & authorization is ok. some
>   probably want to leverage our existing authentication (for example,
>   to allow all their students' access) but that may be ok to defer to a
>   different solution.
> 
>   All probably want both authenticated and anonymous users to be able
>   to read the wiki (but not post).
> 
> 3) If we have to maintain/support the wiki code, we'd like it to be
>   secure and reasonable to manage.
> 
> 4) they don't all have to be in the same wiki instance, we can run
>   multiple instances 
> 
> Any ideas? I realize this is not an entirely well-formed request, the
> staff person who has been looking into this is rather frustrated, so I
> thought I'd get some fresh ideas.
> 
> thanks,
> 
>  --david
> 
> ps: the same exact questions will be asked about "blogs", because some
> people think a wiki is the way to maintain a web site, others prefer blogs...
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